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Been wanting to start a loner-challenge in ClanGen for a while, but either couldn't pick one or two favorites from the list of potential characters, or just couldn't find a selection of characters I even remotely liked. Randomly got bored this afternoon and decided to try one more time, and fell in love with these guys~ And after a not insignificant amount of time coding and editing, managed to transform 7 cats into a Clan of loners. Allow me to introduce;

  • Shadow - lost loner

  • Smokey - lost loner

  • Heathtail - MireClan medicine cat and guide

  • Heather - biological daughter of Heathtail, adopted daughter of Smokey and Shadow

  • Raven - biological daughter of Smokey and Shadow

Smokey and Shadow are a pair of loners who live on the borders of a territory controlled by two Clans; MireClan and FallenClan. While FallenClan struggles to hold on to their territory after a terrible blight ravaged their ranks, MireClan was far less lucky and crumbled completely, leaving only one survivor. A young kit who was thankfully discovered by Shadow and presented to his mate, who was nursing a single surviving kit from their own litter. Smokey agreed to take on the new kit, especially since she was about the same age as her own daughter and raised the kitten as their own, naming her Heather.

Little were they aware that Heather wasn't actually abandoned, and is the sole survivor of MireClan, the daughter of Heathtail - the Clan's last survivor and last medicine cat. She managed to move her kitten into the loners' territory just before she died of the Blight.

Now, several moons later, Smokey and Shadow have gone missing, leaving their young daughters alone in the forest. And with the guidance of Heathtail, have been brought back to the old camp of MireClan, encouraged by the medicine cat's spirit to rebuild the Clan.

Now, the inexperienced apprentices must learn to adapt or succumb to the same fate as their predecessors.

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Let me know if anyone would be interested in following the progress of this story.

Challenge Rules -

Firstly; turn "Leader's automatically choose deputy" setting OFF to disable autonomy for the game to choose a cat to become deputy. All other settings are optional.

1. Create a new Clan, choose Expanded Mode or Cruel Season (once it becomes available to play)

2. Choose a leader, deputy, medicine cat, and a minimum of 4 other Clan members. Be sure to choose your selected "loner" as one of the Clan members. This should be either a young adult or apprentice, or if you are comfortable with editing the save file, you can adjust this manually for your selected character to make them age-appropriate.

3. (optional), you may choose to flesh out the Clan before its inevitable doom, playing a few moons to establish relationships and other things. Maybe you can find a fit that is born/adopted into the Clan that you want to be your "Loner".

4. Everyone dies OR is exiled leaving only your selected character in the Clan.

5. Begin to explore the territory (for an added challenge, try to make decisions you think your "Loner" would make based on their personality)

6. Find cats in the wild and invite them into your Clan.

7. Cats who exchange healing for shelter are allowed, however you cannot force a cat to be a medicine cat. Either they choose to become one on their own, or a character joins the Clan as a medicine cat.

8. Once you have a Clan population of 12 cats or more you may appoint your first leader! (For an added challenge, do not include kits or your original Clan member/s as part of your 12-cat-populace)

9. Your Clan is now thriving, see how far you can take it!

My settings:

- Allow mass extinction events: OFF (until population reaches 50 cats or more)

- Allow cats to breed with cats that aren't their mate: ON

- Pregnancy ignores biology: OFF

- Increase same-sex adoption: ON

- Allow cats to have kittens with an unknown second parent: ON

- Allow romantic interactions with former mentors: ON

- Allow first cousins to be mates and have romantic interactions: OFF

- Allow leaders to automatically choose a new deputy: OFF

- Disable Experience-based apprentice graduation: OFF

- Cats will never retire due to a permanent condition: OFF

- Allow warriors and elders to choose to become mediators: ON

(not a setting, but personal preference)

- Gender is based on biology: ON (no trans-cats)

- Same-Sex Relations: ON

• Same-Sex relations are not particularly unheard of and neither are they shunned

- Medicine Cats may have mates and kits: ON (conditional)

• Male medicine cats may have mates and kits at any time

• Female medicine cats are allowed to have mates, but it is frowned upon for them to have kits before there is at least one other trained medicine cat residing in the Clan

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ClanGen

Symbols borrowed from SleepyMoss

Description

Been wanting to start a loner-challenge in ClanGen for a while, but either couldn't pick one or two favorites from the list of potential characters, or just couldn't find a selection of characters I even remotely liked. Randomly got bored this afternoon and decided to try one more time, and fell in love with these guys~ And after a not insignificant amount of time coding and editing, managed to transform 7 cats into a Clan of loners. Allow me to introduce;

  • Shadow - lost loner

  • Smokey - lost loner

  • Heathtail - MireClan medicine cat and guide

  • Heather - biological daughter of Heathtail, adopted daughter of Smokey and Shadow

  • Raven - biological daughter of Smokey and Shadow

Smokey and Shadow are a pair of loners who live on the borders of a territory controlled by two Clans; MireClan and FallenClan. While FallenClan struggles to hold on to their territory after a terrible blight ravaged their ranks, MireClan was far less lucky and crumbled completely, leaving only one survivor. A young kit who was thankfully discovered by Shadow and presented to his mate, who was nursing a single surviving kit from their own litter. Smokey agreed to take on the new kit, especially since she was about the same age as her own daughter and raised the kitten as their own, naming her Heather.

Little were they aware that Heather wasn't actually abandoned, and is the sole survivor of MireClan, the daughter of Heathtail - the Clan's last survivor and last medicine cat. She managed to move her kitten into the loners' territory just before she died of the Blight.

Now, several moons later, Smokey and Shadow have gone missing, leaving their young daughters alone in the forest. And with the guidance of Heathtail, have been brought back to the old camp of MireClan, encouraged by the medicine cat's spirit to rebuild the Clan.

Now, the inexperienced apprentices must learn to adapt or succumb to the same fate as their predecessors.

--

Let me know if anyone would be interested in following the progress of this story.

Challenge Rules -

Firstly; turn "Leader's automatically choose deputy" setting OFF to disable autonomy for the game to choose a cat to become deputy. All other settings are optional.

1. Create a new Clan, choose Expanded Mode or Cruel Season (once it becomes available to play)

2. Choose a leader, deputy, medicine cat, and a minimum of 4 other Clan members. Be sure to choose your selected "loner" as one of the Clan members. This should be either a young adult or apprentice, or if you are comfortable with editing the save file, you can adjust this manually for your selected character to make them age-appropriate.

3. (optional), you may choose to flesh out the Clan before its inevitable doom, playing a few moons to establish relationships and other things. Maybe you can find a fit that is born/adopted into the Clan that you want to be your "Loner".

4. Everyone dies OR is exiled leaving only your selected character in the Clan.

5. Begin to explore the territory (for an added challenge, try to make decisions you think your "Loner" would make based on their personality)

6. Find cats in the wild and invite them into your Clan.

7. Cats who exchange healing for shelter are allowed, however you cannot force a cat to be a medicine cat. Either they choose to become one on their own, or a character joins the Clan as a medicine cat.

8. Once you have a Clan population of 12 cats or more you may appoint your first leader! (For an added challenge, do not include kits or your original Clan member/s as part of your 12-cat-populace)

9. Your Clan is now thriving, see how far you can take it!

My settings:

- Allow mass extinction events: OFF (until population reaches 50 cats or more)

- Allow cats to breed with cats that aren't their mate: ON

- Pregnancy ignores biology: OFF

- Increase same-sex adoption: ON

- Allow cats to have kittens with an unknown second parent: ON

- Allow romantic interactions with former mentors: ON

- Allow first cousins to be mates and have romantic interactions: OFF

- Allow leaders to automatically choose a new deputy: OFF

- Disable Experience-based apprentice graduation: OFF

- Cats will never retire due to a permanent condition: OFF

- Allow warriors and elders to choose to become mediators: ON

(not a setting, but personal preference)

- Gender is based on biology: ON (no trans-cats)

- Same-Sex Relations: ON

• Same-Sex relations are not particularly unheard of and neither are they shunned

- Medicine Cats may have mates and kits: ON (conditional)

• Male medicine cats may have mates and kits at any time

• Female medicine cats are allowed to have mates, but it is frowned upon for them to have kits before there is at least one other trained medicine cat residing in the Clan

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ClanGen

Symbols borrowed from SleepyMoss